2007, ISBN: 9781406848083

Almayer?s Folly, Joseph Conrad?s first novel, is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s… Meer...

Almayer?s Folly, Joseph Conrad?s first novel, is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells of the Dutch merchant Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice. Nadine Gordimer writes in her Introduction, ?Conrad?s writing is lifelong questioning . . . What was ?Almayer?s Folly?? The pretentious house never liv..., Almayer?s Folly, Joseph Conrad?s first novel, is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells of the Dutch merchant Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice. Nadine Gordimer writes in her Introduction, ?Conrad?s writing is lifelong questioning . . . What was ?Almayer?s Folly?? The pretentious house never lived in? His obsession with gold? His obsessive love for his daughter, whose progenitors, the Malay race, he despised? All three?? Conrad established in Almayer?s Folly the themes of betrayal, isolation, and colonialism that he would explore throughout the rest of his life and work.Taal: Engels; Oorspronkelijke titel: Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River; Afmetingen: 7x229x152 mm; Gewicht: 191,00 gram; Verschijningsdatum: november 2007; ISBN10: 1406848085; ISBN13: 9781406848083; , Engelstalig | Paperback | 2007, Geschiedenis & Politiek, Geschiedenis, Literatuur & Romans, Literaire romans, Echo Library<

ISBN: 9781406848083

Set in eastern Borneo during the 1880s, Almayer's Folly recreates the conflicts of imperial Europe with the colonized East Indies through Kaspar Almayer's personal tragedy: his los… Meer...

Set in eastern Borneo during the 1880s, Almayer's Folly recreates the conflicts of imperial Europe with the colonized East Indies through Kaspar Almayer's personal tragedy: his loss of both his daughter to her native lover and his dream of finding gold. This edition presents Joseph Conrad's first novel freed from seven layers of publishers' and typists' corruptions. Complete textual and contextual histories, full annotation and two regional maps are provided. This is the text, established through modern textual scholarship, as Conrad would have liked it to have appeared in 1895. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, Echo Library Core >1<

2016, ISBN: 1406848085

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